Grated ink: the ghost above the city 2015

Alfred Freddy Krupa made this drawing using ink on paper, and it's a fascinating example of how an artist can create something so evocative with such limited means. Looking at this artwork, I can almost feel the artist's hand moving across the surface, scratching, and scraping away at the ink to reveal this ghostly figure. The stark contrast between the black background and the white lines is striking, and I wonder if Krupa was thinking about the push and pull between light and shadow. The way the lines dance and flicker, they remind me of Cy Twombly's scribbled surfaces, but there is a darker, more unsettling feeling to it. There's a raw, urgent quality to the mark-making, as if Krupa was trying to capture a fleeting image or a half-forgotten memory. The image hovers, caught between representation and abstraction. This piece feels like a visual poem, a meditation on mortality and the ephemeral nature of existence.